“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”

“In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.”

“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”

“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”

“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”

“A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.”

“The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.”